Chapter 249: Breaking Through the Thieves

The officer of the Jihu battalion appointed by Lan Ziyi to lead the team commanded his soldiers to rush into the thief formation,

This time the impact was strong and heavy, and it caught up with the chaos of the thief's formation, and the impact was very perfect, and a group of cavalry soldiers rushed directly to the place where there were horse corpses before, which must have been the last time the soldiers took advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness to impact the distance,

Not long ago, the soldiers rushed so far, but they were still killed and retreated by the thieves, which shows that the thieves are fierce.

But the fact that the thieves were able to repel the official army last time does not mean that they can also repel the official army this time, this time Lan Ziyi also exerted huge pressure on the bandit formation in the east, and the official army in the south rushed to kill so far that it meant that the bandit front collapsed.

The bandits' forces at the intersection were only urgently summoned to intercept the cavalry officers of the Jihu Battalion, and the siege at both ends just now had put these bandits under great pressure, and they barely supported them to maintain the front from collapsing.

However, Lan Ziyi's desperate onslaught broke the balance of the formation that the thieves had painstakingly maintained, and the leader of the thieves had to mobilize the defenders in the other direction to strengthen the defense, which gave the defenders of the southern front a chance to attack.

The galloping cavalry soldiers directly smashed into the core of the thief formation, and the leader of the thief who was still in front of Lan Ziyi just now and the archer beside him drowned in the chaotic crowd in the blink of an eye.

It's a pity that the officer of the Jihu Battalion was hit by the stray arrows falling from the roof of the house at the moment of the attack on the bandits' front, and he fell off his horse and drowned under the horse's hooves.

Lan Ziyi saw that the officer was shot down from the horse, and thought that this person was also fateful, and just wanted to promote him, but he died.

Then Lan Ziyi loudly reprimanded the sergeant:

"Don't panic, all the sergeants listen to my orders and continue to charge!"

The sergeants rushing from the south had already entered a state of charge, and even if the commander died at this time, it would not be possible to stop the rapid movement, and the soldiers did not even look surprised to see the officer fall to the ground, they still brandished their sabers and charged, slashing at the enemy in front of them.

These soldiers have rushed to the center of the thieves, and after hearing Lan Ziyi's order, they were even more reassured, and the impact of their men and horses knocked the thieves in front of them to the ground and trampled under the hooves of the horses, and those thieves who were not knocked down were sandwiched between the two cavalry, even if their tight formation was not inferior to the enemy in front of them, but their rear had been completely lost to the enemy.

Lan Ziyi saw that the soldiers in the front row not far in front of him were still slashing with the thieves with difficulty, a soldier tightened the reins of the horse with his left hand, and raised his right hand to swing the knife and chopped down, but he was caught by the thief in front of him with a knife, and on his left side there was a thief who took the opportunity to raise a knife and wanted to attack the sergeant's left hand,

It's just that the thief didn't expect that his hand was just raised and his arm was cut off by the cavalry soldier who skipped by the wind behind him, and the pain of the broken arm had not yet reached the thief's brain, but the bloody impact of vision had occupied his eyes, and the thief turned his head to stare at his broken arm, and just as he wanted to open his mouth to scream, another sergeant stepped forward and slashed the back of his head, and the warrior's blade bounced on the lower edge of the thief's helmet, and the entire front of the blade was cut from the thief's neck to the thief's left shoulder, and most of the thief's neck was cut off, and blood splattered and fell to the ground.

The other thieves who were still fighting also heard the noise behind them, and when they looked back, they saw that the friendly troops behind them had been trampled under their horses, and those who were lucky enough to survive had abandoned their armor and fled to the rear.

Before these thieves had time to curse their allies for abandoning them and running away, they turned around to meet the angry swords of the soldiers of the Jihu Battalion who were engaged in the battle in front of them.

The soldiers of the Jihu Battalion led by Lan Ziyi were blocked at the intersection just now, unable to advance or retreat, using their own flesh and blood to open the way among the thieves, suffering heavy casualties, and now they have finally won the opportunity to attack their friendly troops, how can their morale not be strong,

The strong morale coupled with the anger of revenge, the soldiers' sword skills seem to have become sharper, and the thieves who block the way are no longer an insurmountable wall, but have become melons and fruits that have been cut under the knife, which can only be harvested by the soldiers of the Jihu Battalion.

Lan Ziyi shouted to cheer on the soldiers, and at the same time ordered his soldiers to continue to follow the attack.

Lan Ziyi looked up at the thieves who went to the roof just now, in fact, what the officer of the Jihu Battalion didn't say before the charge just now was that as long as the charge was successful and mixed with the thieves, the archers sent by the thieves to the roof would throw rat traps and dare not continue to release arrows, and now the situation is exactly like this, the crossbowmen of the thieves were all in a daze on the roof after the Jihu Battalion rushed into the thieves' array, and they didn't dare to release arrows at will.

The soldiers rose up and wanted to chop the thieves who were now surrounded into pulp, but Lan Ziyi knew in his heart that he and the soldiers of the Jihu Battalion he brought could not stop here, because once the thieves here were eliminated, the archers who occupied the high ground would continue to release arrows, and the reinforcements from other directions of the thieves would organize people to intercept his cavalry again, and at that time, it would be difficult for Lan Ziyi to win another chance for himself to charge.

Lan Ziyi saw that the two armies had just joined forces, and immediately ordered in a loud voice:

"Rush forward, rush west, and attack the bandits who have landed on the shore."

The crossroads where Lan Ziyi and the thieves fought were an important hub connecting the wharf with the city, and the east-west street went west to the warehouse guarded by Qi Rongxun.

After the thieves' defenders blocked Lan Ziyi's attack just now, the thieves' reinforcements continued to support the battle besieging Qi Rongxun through this intersection, and now Lan Ziyi broke through the thieves' defense line, and the thieves' marching team was exposed in front of Lan Ziyi's eyes.

So Lan Ziyi gave an order, and the soldiers took the reins and turned their horses' heads, wanting to line up to attack the thieves.

Lan Ziyi looked at the bustling crowd, and saw that the thieves who were marching had turned to try to line up to defend against Lan Ziyi's attack, and hurriedly ordered:

"Don't care about the formation, rush out for me, rush with the thieves, be fast!"

When the cavalry soldiers heard this, they didn't dare to hesitate any longer, and the soldiers of the Jihu Battalion who rushed to the periphery of the team took the lead in launching a surprise attack and rushed to the thieves regardless of whether they were supported by friendly troops.

As these soldiers took the lead and rushed out, the other soldiers of the Jihu Battalion who were huddled in a group behind also began to charge together, although the soldiers were chaotic but not without rules, their behavior may not be uniform, but their thoughts were the same, that is, to kill the thieves, and Lan Ziyi wanted to take advantage of the favorable situation brought by breaking through the thieves' defense line to take advantage of the situation to expand the results. At this time, the Jihu Battalion was like a nest of ignited hornets, seemingly attacking from all sides, but in fact it was a devouring attack launched for the same purpose.

The soldiers accelerated along the streets, and the evacuation formation maintained by the thieves for the convenience of the march gave the soldiers plenty of room to maneuver.

The knights of the Jihu battalion galloped through the streets, at first it was just one or two, but slowly, there were more and more people, and at first they heard that the wrong marching thieves behind them had not yet lined up in a dense defensive formation and were shuttled by the soldiers of the Jihu battalion from the gap between people, and then they were bumped into by other Jihu battalion soldiers who followed behind, and then there were sabers flying all over the sky,

The infantry without the protection of the formation was powerless in front of the cavalry that had already galloped, and the infantry at this time was just one straggler after another, they were just using their own bodies as moving targets for the cavalry warriors to train in the racecourse.

The soldiers of the Jihu battalion almost fell into the pursuit battle, the galloping horses broke through the defense line that the thieves tried to establish and galloped westward, the marching thieves heard the sound of horses' hooves from behind, and when they turned around and looked around, they would be cut into two knots by the oncoming sabers, and the marching of the thieves turned into a rout under the drive of the soldiers of the Jihu battalion, and a short section of the street became Huangquan Road, urging the slow-paced thieves to become lonely ghosts

The thieves standing on the roof were afraid of accidental injury at first, and did not dare to release arrows.

But under the loud orders of the bandit leader, the archers finally poured arrows into the streets.

The loss falls from the sky, even if the person who releases the arrow is aimed at the official army at the beginning, and when the tuft head is plunged into the flesh, it is very likely to become his own friendly army running wildly on the road, the heavy armor on the soldiers of the Jihu Battalion and the speed of their galloping minimizes the effect of the arrows, and the thieves who attack the city are not the elite of the whole body of heavy armor,

Lan Ziyi looked at this overwhelming offensive, and for a moment he fantasized that he could rely on his two thousand men, if there were still two thousand, to break through the thieves who were besieging Qi Rongxun in front of him, and open a bloody path for the brothers.

But the defense line quickly organized by the thieves not far ahead shattered Lan Ziyi's dream,

The thieves besieging Qi Rongxun saw that someone was attacking along the street, and immediately drew out manpower from the besieging team under the command of the leader.

The sergeants who blocked the road were armed with spears, and the ranks were relatively dispersed, just enough to allow the fleeing bandit infantry to retreat behind the gun array, and did not let the retreating friendly troops attack their own line, and behind these pikes and thieves, there were many drawn crossbowmen already in place.

The thieves reacted so quickly, which means that the comers are not good, even if Lan Ziyi can break through this layer of guns, the thieves behind him will quickly enter the battle, so if Lan Ziyi dares to impact the thieves' defense line at this time, then he can only touch his front teeth and sink in front of the thieves' defense line, and behind Lan Ziyi's ass there is a steady stream of thieves entering the city.

So Lan Ziyi made a quick decision and ordered the soldiers to turn around, and at the same time took out bows and arrows to shoot the thieves and archers who released arrows from a high place.

On the streets that were attacked by Lan Ziyi's subordinates, the thieves had lost their organizational ability, and it was impossible for them to stop Lan Ziyi's people from turning around.

However, the purpose of Lan Ziyi's attack this time was not to rush back and forth on the streets for a while, he wanted to attract the attention of the thieves and let the thieves put their forces on his side, so that Tao Zhuhu's side would have a chance to attack.

Lan Ziyi looked back at the motionless thief front and found that even those thief spearmen did not take the initiative to pursue.

A sergeant released an arrow that hit a thief on the roof, and then asked Lan Ziyi:

"Wei Hou, what should I do if the thief doesn't take the bait?"

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